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Entries from August 2007

Sporting Clays, the Big 4-0 Birthday and Business Networking

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Saturday we celebrated my 40th shooting Sporting Clays at the Waunakee Gun Club. I got a shooting vest as a gift which is great. I’ve only ever shot shotguns 4 times in my life and each time I like it more and more. I’m considering getting one which is not making Anke too happy.
Networking socially [...]

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Tags: Life · Networking · Sports & Recreation

Personal Valet

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Gotta love kids!
This  morning Griffin decided to dress me.  He’s big into imitating Daddy.
He selected black socks. Ordinarily not a bad choice, except that I planned on spending the day working the phones in the home office.
Next came athletic compression short for my underpants. Then a very loud surf t-shirt and some old ill-fitting shorts.
I [...]

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Tags: Family · Kids

Consumers prefer mail to all other communication media

August 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Just reading thru my latest Dan Kennedy newsletter and he had interesting commentary on an International Communications Research Study released in June. The study found that consumers prefer godd old fashioned snail mail to any other type of communication, most notably e-mail.
Here’s some highlights:
73% prefer mail for receiving new product and service announcements, promotions, offers [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Work

Happy Birthday!

August 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

It’s not a coincidence that I choose my 40th birthday to begin blogging.
This concept came to me just 10 days ago when I was visiting two friends who are also small business people. Joel is an internet marketer, and Andrea (Ahn-dray) runs a lingerie business. We were sitting around their kitchen, Andrea was working on [...]

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